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Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: … #1 I agree with. The Daily had no personality, no focus. It wasn't tawdry enough to be a New York Post-style tabloid, and wasn't serious enough to compete with the New York Times. #2 I completely disagree with.

How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly — Although Tumblr is now cleaning-up pages which were affected by today's worm, SophosLabs was able to briefly explore how the infection spread. — It appears that the worm took advantage of Tumblr's reblogging feature, meaning that anyone who was logged …

No, Facebook's Not Buying WhatsApp (But Keep an Eye on It) — WhatsApp hit the tech news circuit today because of a somewhat speculative article in TechCrunch asserting that Facebook has been sniffing around the mobile messaging company. — But the Facebook acquisition talks aren't happening, said multiple sources.

Nobody Is Crying For You When You Are Worth Billions — I did a talk with Bill Werde at Billboard's FutureSound conference a few weeks ago. The entire talk is online (in two parts) here. If you go to 7:45 minutes in on the first video (embedded below) you will get to a conversation …

Apple - Think Twice. — Apple - Think DifferentTwice. — I'm writing this because I think Apple may have changed. I have been a loyal customer for 11 years, but will think twice before every buying from them again. I hope anyone reading this will do the same.

India sets up seaside ‘village’ to nurture start-ups — (Reuters) - Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Indian information technology giant Infosys, stares out from a wall-to-wall poster in a modern office building near Kochi. — A caption reads: “We started Infosys in a room about this size; it's your turn now.”

Tweetro+ Windows 8 app released for $9.99 — A few weeks ago, we reported that the popular third party Twitter app Tweetro for Windows 8 had been removed from the Windows Store. This was due to the app, from developer Lazyworm Applications, using up its allocated amount of 100,000 licenses.